In response to the global COVID-19 outbreak, Metrion Biosciences has decided to temporarily close our laboratory operations.
This closure is to help us to safeguard the health and safety of our employees, their families and the wider UK community.
We remain open to discuss new business via home working, please see our blog page for further details; you can contact our team via info@metrionbiosciences.com.
Leaders in Ion Channel Biology
Welcome to Metrion Biosciences
Metrion Biosciences is a UK-based Contract Research Organization (CRO) focussed on delivering a range of high quality ion channel drug discovery services. We provide highly skilled electrophysiology screening services to support client medicinal chemistry optimisation programmes, CiPA compliant cardiac safety profiling assays, neuroscience assays and translational assays. Working closely with our collaborators Assay.Works and Concept Life Sciences we also offer an expert integrated drug discovery service.
Metrion offers flexible business models according to the scope of each programme, with both fee-for-service and collaborative options available.
Our Expertise
Metrion has assembled a team of highly expert and dedicated ion channel screening specialists to support diverse ion channel drug discovery projects and modern safety assessment research. We combine in depth target class knowledge and high quality screening assays with experienced and collaborative project managers to keep your research focused upon meeting both objectives and timelines.
Our Services
Ion Channel Screening
Metrion has developed validated screening assays against an extensive panel of ion channel cell lines using a variety of high quality ion channel screening platforms with a range of throughput capabilities.
Cardiac Safety Screening
Metrion offers screening services against a premium panel of validated Comprehensive in Vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) compliant human cardiac ion channel screening assays, which includes hERG.
Our Facilities
Metrion is located within the Cambridge bio cluster, one of Europe’s largest bioscience research hubs. Our state of the art laboratories at Granta Park house high quality facilities for native and engineered cell line and induced pluripotent stem cell culture, a comprehensive suite of automated patch clamp platforms, multiple manual patch clamp rigs, fluorescence-based screening capability and laboratory data management and reporting systems.
Latest News
Metrion Biosciences and LifeArc extend ion channel drug discovery collaboration
Metrion Biosciences and LifeArc extend ion channel drug discovery collaboration to accelerate neuroscience-focused research Initial twelve month collaboration successfully identifies [...]
Metrion Biosciences Appoints Dr Andrew Southan as Chief Executive Officer
Metrion Biosciences Appoints Dr Andrew Southan as Chief Executive Officer Cambridge, UK, 08 April 2019: Metrion Biosciences (“Metrion”), the specialist [...]
Metrion Biosciences closes funding round
Metrion Biosciences Closes Funding Round Includes investment from o2h Ventures Therapeutics Fund Funding to support expansion of ion channel screening [...]